Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of ...
A rare Neanderthal fetus reveals that many traits distinguishing Neanderthals from modern humans likely developed only after birth.
A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...
This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...
A late Neanderthal group in Belgium and France stayed genetically healthy, with no inbreeding signs, just before vanishing.
Ancient DNA extracted from 27 late Neanderthal remains across Belgium’s Meuse Basin and two French sites reveals that the ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — In recent years, scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans and Neanderthals share a tangled past. In the course of human history, these two species of hominins interbred ...
Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder months, according to a new international study led by researchers from the ...